Comments on: My take: Primary care, treating lawyers, bitter at doctors http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html#comment-85937 Anonymous Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers-bitter-at-doctors.html#comment-85937 "And that's what sets physicians apart from lawyers."<br/><br/>What, your lack of knowledge about whether other attorneys would represent someone who makes a living suing lawyers? Or your willingness to make wild guesses about professions you know little about? “And that’s what sets physicians apart from lawyers.”

What, your lack of knowledge about whether other attorneys would represent someone who makes a living suing lawyers? Or your willingness to make wild guesses about professions you know little about?

]]> By: DDx:dxhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html#comment-85876 DDx:dx Thu, 29 May 2008 15:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers-bitter-at-doctors.html#comment-85876 Kevin, You bemoan primary care and claim doctors are "poor" with education debt but publicize the high suicide rate. I don't know about East Coast, but doctors(especialyy specialists) in the West do just fine. Three of the 5 highest assesed homes in my rural county are owned by specialist physicians. My home(Family doc) is above average. No, medicine is still a good living. It is the lack of morality that is depressing, not the financial aspect. <br/>But your answer to the letter unhappy with the quality of her care is: "Medicine is a Business". So that's our excuse now for our incompetence...<br/>If medicine is a business, the value of primary care would be evident in the market. But the government currently sets the value of doctors services. Like milk price supports...I think that is the kind of business you are talking about, one highly regulated and managed... like it is now.<br/>And all you are arguing for is a bigger piece of the government cut-up pie for primary care...not a system change. Kevin, You bemoan primary care and claim doctors are “poor” with education debt but publicize the high suicide rate. I don’t know about East Coast, but doctors(especialyy specialists) in the West do just fine. Three of the 5 highest assesed homes in my rural county are owned by specialist physicians. My home(Family doc) is above average. No, medicine is still a good living. It is the lack of morality that is depressing, not the financial aspect.
But your answer to the letter unhappy with the quality of her care is: “Medicine is a Business”. So that’s our excuse now for our incompetence…
If medicine is a business, the value of primary care would be evident in the market. But the government currently sets the value of doctors services. Like milk price supports…I think that is the kind of business you are talking about, one highly regulated and managed… like it is now.
And all you are arguing for is a bigger piece of the government cut-up pie for primary care…not a system change.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html#comment-85870 Anonymous Thu, 29 May 2008 06:07:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers-bitter-at-doctors.html#comment-85870 I start med school in 2 months. Cost of attendance per year: $64k. So I'll be $256k in debt when I start residency, and around $400k when I start practice. Those who aren't lucky enough to get into a cheap state school (or have other means) are in the same boat, and really, that's most of us. Primary care? I would if I could. Maybe after I pay it all off... I start med school in 2 months. Cost of attendance per year: $64k. So I’ll be $256k in debt when I start residency, and around $400k when I start practice. Those who aren’t lucky enough to get into a cheap state school (or have other means) are in the same boat, and really, that’s most of us. Primary care? I would if I could. Maybe after I pay it all off…

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html#comment-85869 Anonymous Thu, 29 May 2008 04:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers-bitter-at-doctors.html#comment-85869 "I don't personally know of any who live in houses worth over a million dollars."<br/><br/>That does not mean that they did not pay $2 million for those houses! “I don’t personally know of any who live in houses worth over a million dollars.”

That does not mean that they did not pay $2 million for those houses!

]]> By: The Independent Urologisthttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers.html#comment-85862 The Independent Urologist Wed, 28 May 2008 19:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/my-take-primary-care-treating-lawyers-bitter-at-doctors.html#comment-85862 Re: the treating lawyer take:<br/>Legal malpractice is alive and well and can be very lucrative. Many lawyers specialize in it and seem to have no problem suing "their own"; I suppose no more so than a doctors testifying against other doctors. Re: the treating lawyer take:
Legal malpractice is alive and well and can be very lucrative. Many lawyers specialize in it and seem to have no problem suing “their own”; I suppose no more so than a doctors testifying against other doctors.

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